1.George
Washington3 Jackson(George2, John1)
was born 07/09 February 1791 in (West) Virginia, and died 20 August 1876 in
Weston, Lewis County, (West) Virginia.Burial: Aft. 20 August 1876, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West
Virginia. He married Hester "Hettie" Taylor 10 October 1816 in Muskingum County, Ohio.She was a daughter to Robert Taylor,
who ran a hotel in Zanesville, OH.They were married by Rev. J. Culvetson. She was born Bet. 1799 - 1800 in
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and died 21 June 1852 in Weston, Lewis
County, West Virginia. She first buried at Arnold Hill and then moved to
Machpelah.She is a blood relative
to Zack Taylor.

George
was a Capt. in the War of 1812, 19th Reg. US Infantry, promoted by President
Madison. Family settled in McConnelsville, Ohio shortly after George retired
from US Army at the close of the war.

In
1870 he was living with his son, James Taylor Jackson, in Newark, Licking
County, Ohio.He was age 81,
retired miller.

Children of George Jackson and Hester Taylor are:

+2i.Margaret Elizabeth4
Jackson, born Bet. 1828 - 1829 in
McConnelsville, Ohio; died 03 November 1886 in Weston, Lewis County, West
Virginia.

+4iii.Catherine Jackson, born about 1831 in McConnelsville, Ohio; died 25
June 1893 in San Diego, California.

+5iv.Eliza J. "Lida"
Jackson, born about 1833 in McConnelsville,
Ohio; died 06 February 1874 in Brenham, Texas.

+6v.Alfred Henry Jackson, born 01 January 1836 in McConnelsville, Ohio; died
01 August 1863 in Civil War, wounded Cedar Mountain.

Generation
No. 2

2.Margaret
Elizabeth4 Jackson (George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born Bet.
1828 - 1829 in McConnelsville, Ohio, and died 03 November 1886 in Weston, Lewis
County, West Virginia. Burial: Aft. 03 November 1886, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis
County, West Virginia. She married Jonathan McCalley Bennett 07 April 1846 in Lewis County, West Virginia1.He was born 04 October 1816, and died
28 October 1887 in Lewis County, West Virginia. Burial: Aft. 28 October 1887,
Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia.

***

Portrait of a
Lady

Margaret
Elizabeth Bennett, who lived during the turbulent Civil War period

written by
Harry M. Rice.

Themarriage of Margaret Elizabeth Jackson
to Jonathan McCauley Bennett on April 7, 1846, took Weston by surprise.It might well have .For 10 years Bennett had been one of
the town’s eminently eligible bachelors, tall, handsome, important, and
prosperous.His name had been
romantically associated with a Sophronia, a Charlotte, a Lucy, and a Mollie,
all of whose last names have been lost in the mists of the years; very recently
rumor had connected him with Cordelia Talbott, daughter of the Clerk of the
County and Superior Courts and local minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church.At the time Margaret was
scarcely more than a child and had lived in Weston only a little more than
three years.

She
was born at Zanesville, Ohio, on July 18, 1828, a child of George Washington
and Hettie (Taylor) Jackson.Her
mother was a member of the noted Taylor family of Baltimore, and she was said
to be collaterally related to President Zachary Taylor.Similarly, on the paternal side,
Margaret Elizabeth was the product of a long line of able and energetic
forbears.Her father, at the age
of 21, had been appointed a lieutenant of United States Infantry by President
James Madison, and 13 months later, in August, 1813, he was promoted to the
rank of captain, When the War of 1812 ended he returned to his home in
Zanesville where two years later he married Hettie Taylor, a newcomer from the
east.

His
father, George Jackson, was a man of boundless energy and enthusiasm.He was among the first settlers to
cross the Alleghenies into western Virginia, he saw service with George Rogers
Clark in the Revolutionary War: and in 1782 Governor Thomas Jefferson
commissioned him a captain of Virginia militia.He subsequently served in the General Assembly of Virginia
and was sent by his constituents to the House of Representatives of the United
States Congress.In 1799 he
patented 4,200 acres of land on the upper waters of the West Fork of the
Monongahela river and became one of the motivating forces in the establishment
of “Collins Settlement” in Lewis County.This village later became known as “Bennett’s Mill,” and since the
1850’s has been Walkersville.As
the lands about him filled with people the freedom of the frontier beckoned,
and in 1807 he answered the call.He moved with his family to Zanesville where he soon again was in
politics, serving before his death in 1831 in both the House of Representatives
and the Senate of Ohio.

Margaret
Elizabeth’s uncle, John George Jackson, served in the Virginia General Assembly
and was elected to six successive sessions of congress.In addition to being a
brigadier-general of Virginia militia he was the first judge of the United
States Court for the District of Western Virginia.Another uncle, Edward Brake Jackson, served in one congress
but resigned after being elected to succeed himself.,

Thus
it was that when George W. Jackson decided to move to Weston, Virginia, in
1843, he was going to no strange land but was returning to the region he had
left as a lad of 16 more than 35 years before.Nor was his fifteen-year-old daughter to find herself among
people who knew nothing of her family.Only very recently her second cousin, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, --later
to become immortal as “Stonewall”--had left the home of his uncle four miles
from Weston to go to the United States Military Academy at West Point.Indeed, the young man, Gibson J.
Butcher, whose resignation from the Academy had made her cousin’s appointment
possible, was soon to marry her sister, Katherine, and thus to come within the
family circle.With well-known
relatives at every turn Margaret must have been meeting and seeing people of
whom she had heard her father speak many, many times.

George
W. Jackson was soon engaged in his work as a carpenter.In the summer of 1844 he was
commissioned by Jonathan M. Bennett to repair a house on Court street, which
the rising young attorney and business man had recently acquired.Bennett thus soon became acquainted
with the newcomers.At first if he
gave Margaret a thought at all, it must have been only as the child of one of
his friends.But he could not have
been entirely unaware of her rapidly blossoming beauty, which soon was fated to
ensnare him completely.

After
the marriage the newly-weds moved into the home but recently repaired by the
bride’s father.It was in this
house on January 5, 1847, that the young mother looked into eyes of her
first-born child, a boy.He was
christened William George in honor of his two grandfathers, William Bennett and
George Washington Jackson, and thus he personified the flowing together of two
family strains that had such a remarkable influence on the fortunes of
Trans-Allegheny Virginia particularly.

Margaret’s
influence on her husband was immediately apparent.He was soon confirmed in the St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal
church, and in 1849 he became a member of its vestry.It was only two short years later that Richard P. Camden, a
leading merchant of Weston, reported to Bennett from Wheeling that “Mrs. B. has
given you a high reputation (here) as a gentleman of taste.”When Bennett went to Richmond in the
winter of 1852-1853 as Lewis county’s delegate in the General Assembly, his
wife accompanied him, and there she soon was acclaimed as one of the beauties
of the capital.

As
Bennett’s legal, political, and business duties increased, so did those of
Margaret as a wife, homemaker, and mother.Children appeared regularly: Louis in 1849, Gertrude in 1851
and a equal number of years later Mary, the fourth and last.Meanwhile, they had moved into a new
and more commodious house.Fortunately, however, all was not work.After her husband was appointed First Auditor of Virginia in
1857, Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. R. J. McCandlish went to Norfolk for a vacation.
Shortly thereafter McCandlish, a cashier of the Weston branch of the exchange
Bank of Virginia, the presidency of which Bennett had recently resigned,
reported to the latter, in humorous vein, that “our wives seem to be ‘hoeing a
wide row’ down at Norfolk--wonder if they are not palming themselves off for
young widows?”

The
routine of winters in Richmond and summers in Weston was rudely interrupted in
the autumn of 1858.Soon after
Mrs. Bennett and the children had gone to Richmond in October, Louis, Gertrude,
and their mother all contracted typhoid fever.For a time their lives were despaired of.After they recovered sufficiently,
however, to return to the more healthful climate of Weston, and away from the
sources of their malady, their recovery was rapid.

The
duties of auditor kept Bennett more and more in Richmond and this had the
effect of giving Mrs. Bennett an ever greater share of responsibility for the
successful management of affairs at home.It was truly fortunate that she was able thus to serve such an
apprenticeship in her husband’s business affairs, for within a short time the
exigencies of troubled times were to unload the entire execution of them into
her charge.

When
she left Richmond in the spring of 1861, as was her usual custom, to return to
the west, the storm clouds of secession were appearing on the horizon.There was the portent of powerful
change in the air.Hardly had she
safely arrived at Weston before the momentous firing on Fort Sumter announced
the arrival of the storm.

Event
crashed upon event with bewildering rapidity, and war came on the wings of
summer.Battle lines appeared like
an evil mist to separate eastern and western Virginia.The new state movement in the
Trans-Allegheny placed Weston within the Union lines, and Mrs. Bennett was
relatively safe.But what was
happening east of the mountains?Week after week passed and no word came from her husband, nor from her
eldest son who had remained in Richmond with his father.News of the Federal repulse at Manassas
Junction reached the west, but still no letters arrived from Virginia’s
capital.Weeks slowly became
months and then, when the silence seemed no longer bearable, it was broken by
help from a strange quarter.

A
means of circumventing the Federal policy of no communication across the lines
was devised.A friend of
Bennett’s, Reverend E. W. Sehon, of Nashville, Tennessee, worked it out.Bennett placed a letter to his wife in
an envelope addressed to her at Weston. This was then placed in another envelope which was addressed
to Sehon at Nashville.The latter,
upon its receipt, removed it and placed it in still another envelope, addressed
this time to Reverend A. H. Redford at Louisville, Kentucky.Here it was taken from its outer
covering by Redford, and the original from Bennett was placed in the mail.Thus, with a Louisville postmark, it
attracted no unfavorable attention and made its unimpeded way to Weston.Letters from Mrs. Bennett to Richmond
reversed this process.

This
devious scheme permitted of some communication, but it appears to have been
discovered by the Federal authorities and was discontinued.About the middle of October, 1861, Mrs.
Bennett sent word to her husband to write her no more letters, for she feared
receipt of them would lead to her arrest.Moreover, a more direct system had been devised: from this time forward
written communications were taken across the lines by scouts who managed to
evade the authorities.

Meanwhile,
Mrs. Bennett’s troubles were increasing.From the beginning it had proved a difficult task for her to take over
and operate her husband’s large farming and business interests, but with the
help of members of her family, friends, and loyal slaves she had accomplished
it. Suddenly there appeared a
likelihood that she would lose control of the estate.The coming of January, 1862, brought the news that the
United States Marshal was making a list of all property owned or leased by
anyone in rebellion or in the service of a state government in rebellion, for
all such property had been ordered confiscated.

Never
knowing from day to day whether the property was to be hers or not, Mrs.
Bennett continued to administer it as best she could.In the meantime political, business, and financial
conditions were in chaos.Weston
had been invaded by a Union force from Clarksburg, and $27,000 of state funds
in gold had been taken from the branch of the Exchange Bank of Virginia and
transported to the Re-organized Government of Virginia at Wheeling.From time to time detachments of United
States troops occupied the town and at various times placed it under martial
law.This movement of troops back
and forth, together with an occasional raid by local Confederates, despoiled
crops and destroyed markets.

Such
economic conditions made Mrs. Bennett’s task all the harder.She managed to collect enough from old
debts to carry her through the most severe crises until the taxes for 1862 came
due.In order to pay the levy for
that year on five slaves and $782 of other property, she instructed Deputy
Sheriff J. W. Hudson to sell “one lot of Brick.”This, however, did not satisfy the demands of the state on
four parcels of land embracing a total of 2,230 acres.

The amount of this tax, $33.24½, was raised by
having the same deputy sheriff sell a buggy.

With
difficulty piling upon difficulty, Mrs. Bennett must have been looking forward
to another year in Weston with something akin to horror, when word was received
in May, 1863, that she and her children were to be deported from the United
States.On Saturday May 16, she
received the following communication:

Madam:
I have the honor to inform you that yourself and the grown members of your
family are hereby required to hold yourselves in readiness to proceed outside
the Federal lines on Tuesday morning, May 19th, 1863.The following regulations will be strictly observed:

I.No
person will be permitted to take with him or her more than sixty pounds of
baggage.

II.No
person will be allowed to take with him or her more than $100 in United States
funds, gold and silver included. No limit placed on Confederate scrip.

III.Persons who
cannot provide themselves with transportation will be furnished such by the
Government.

By
order Brig. Gen. B. S. Roberts

L.
Markbrit

A. D. C. and Provost Marshal

In
accordance with the terms of this order Mrs. Bennett, her two daughters,
Gertrude and Mary, and her younger son, Louis, were placed in wagons and
ambulances along with 60 other women and children and were transported across
the Allegheny mountains into the Valley of Virginia.They reached Kernstown, a little village a few miles south
of Winchester, after nightfall and were unceremoniously unloaded.The conveyances which brought them
whirled and galloped northward into the darkness toward the Union
outposts.Fortunately for the
ill-fated travelers the people of the town received them hospitably and then
helped them on their way.

Mrs.
Bennett made her way by wagon and buggy up the Valley to Staunton, from which
point she secured rail connections to Richmond.Finally on Wednesday, May 27, 1863, she and her children
reached the state capital.There
she was met by her husband, who took her to the Powhatan hotel. It became their
home until they moved into a house in November.

Through
the remaining years of the war Mrs. Bennett lived in Richmond.As the Union army’s encirclement of the
Confederate capital drew tighter and tighter, late in March, 1865, Bennett
tried to get passes for her and the children through the lines to
Washington.He failed, but as
events were to turn it was a fortunate failure.

General
Robert E. Lee sent word into Richmond on Sunday, April 2, that he could hold
the city only a few hours longer.Shortly before midnight of that same day the Virginia state government
evacuated the city and moved to Lynchburg.A chief financial officer of the commonwealth, Bennett
withdrew the remaining $35,000 in gold of the state’s funds from the banks of
Richmond and carried it with him on his way to the new seat of government.

With
the departure of her husband Mrs. Bennett was again called upon to take charge
of their personal effects.In addition to her already heavy burdens her father intrusted to her
care $1,275 in Confederate currency, which he had collected as the financial
agent for Virginia in Lewis County.She was able to absolve herself of this responsibility on April 28, when
she gave the money to Second Auditor H. W. Thomas.

Meanwhile,
the surrender of General Lee had brought with it the disintegration of the
governments of the Confederacy and of Virginia, and the high officials of both
became fugitives.Mrs. Bennett
immediately set in motion a movement to get a passport to permit the return of
her husband to Richmond.Early in
May she succeeded, and hearing that Bennett was at Lexington she dispatched a
friend, W. C. A. Mayo, to overtake him and deliver the passport.On May 14, Bennett appeared before
Captain Mark Poore, assistant provost marshal general of the Army of the Shenandoah,
in Staunton, and voluntarily took the oath of allegiance to the United
States.Soon, thereafter, armed
with the passport secured by his wife, he returned to Richmond.

The
four long years of war were over.Unrestricted communication between the east and west was again
possible.In October the Bennetts
returned to Weston to make it again their home.They found their house sadly in need of repairs.After Mrs. Bennett’s forced departure
from Richmond, in 1863, the United States government had confiscated all the
Bennett property, and much of it had been leased to tenants who took poor care
of what they used.

During
the remaining year of her life Mrs. Bennett concentrated her attention on her
home.It became known throughout
three states as a center of warm, southern hospitality.Political figures, governors,
congressmen, senators, and others came and went.And always there were young people, friends of the Bennett
children from Baltimore, Richmond, Charlottesville, and West Virginia centers.During summers and especially at
Christmas time teas, parties, and dances were frequent occurrences.

Mrs.
Bennett would get away for a vacation herself occasionally in the company of
her husband or one or more of her children.Visits to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Wheeling, and
the Mineral Wells near Parkersburg were frequently made.She particularly liked to go to
Cincinnati during the opera season, for she was a lifelong lover of music.

Even
though filled with remarkable energy and apparently tireless in her activity,
Mrs. Bennett suffered a great part of her life from a heart affliction.As she grew older the attacks came more
frequently.On Monday night,
November 1, 1886, she was again stricken.As Tuesday passed and she did not respond to treatment as was her wont,
she decided this was to be her last illness.All the family except her youngest, Mary, were at her
bedside.The last thought she uttered
was the wish that the final moment might be postponed until she could see Mary
again. But such was not to
be.At 11:15 in the evening of
November 3, she quietly passed away, “sweetly and without pain,” said her son,
George, in his diary.“To her very
last she seemed to have no thought of herself but careful for every other
person especially her children,” was the fitting epitaph entered in his memoir.
(published in The West Virginia Review,
August 1939, pgs. 333, 334, 349& Weston Independent 3
Jan. 1940.)

***

Obit:

Death of Mrs.
Margaret E. Bennett

Departed this life in this place on Wednesday night,
November 3RD, 1886, Margaret E. Jackson, wife of Honorable Jonathan E. Bennett.

Mrs.
Bennett was the daughter of Captain George W. Jackson, a soldier of the war of
1812 and son of George Jackson, a member of Congress at the time of the Jefferson-Burr
contest for the Presidency; - a niece of Judge John G. Jackson, first Federal
Judge of the District of Western Virginia, and of Dr. Edward B. Jackson, who
succeeded his father and the Judge in the National Legislature; and cousin of
the famous Stonewall Jackson.

She
was one of a large and numerous family, who contributed much in the first
settlement of West Virginia and State of Ohio, and her kindred, fond of
adventure, may be seen in most of the States of the Union.Born in Zanesville, she moved with her
father to this town in 1843, and was here married to Jonathan M. Bennett, Esq.,
where she lived up to her death.

Mrs.
Bennett was a woman of strong mind, cultivated taste, polished manners, a
reader of the past and present, and kept abreast of the literature of the
day.She was a thoughtful wife,
and most affectionate parent;was
liberal to the needy and attentive in affliction.The mother of four children, two sons and two daughters (one
being absent in a distant city) and her honored husband, were with her when the
close came!Like her family, she
met death without fear, and calmly surrendered all that was earthly to earth,
and that which never dies to God.W.E.A.(Weston, November 5, 1886 source
unknown)

Children of Margaret Jackson and Jonathan Bennett
are:

+7i.William George5
Bennett, born 05 January 1847; died 08
November 1916.

+8ii.Gertrude B. Bennett, born 01 November 1851; died 26 May 1926 in
Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia.

+9iii.Louis Bennett, born 27 November 1849 in Weston, Lewis County, West
Virginia; died 02 August 1918 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

10iv.Mary or Marie
Bennett, born 1853; died 07 July 1931.
Burial: Aft. 07 July 1931, Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. She
married Hon. William Duckett Bowie;
born 26 July 1854 in Maryland; died 31 December 1920 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Burial: Aft. 31 December 1921, Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.

He inherited the family
farm "Marietta", near Bowie, Maryland.

He was educated at St. John's College, Annapolis
Maryland. In l89l was elected to represent Prince Georges County in the House
of Delegates, In Nov. l893 was elected State Senator. Mr. Bowie enjoys the
rather unique distinction of being the fourth member his family, in dreft
descent, who has been a State Senator, the same position having beenheld by his father, grandfather, and
great-great grandfather. Member State Legislature in 1892 and in 1894-96 was
member of Senate from Prince George Co., Maryland. Source: The Bowies &
Their Kindred by Walter Worthngton Bowie.

***

1920 census - Baltimore Ward 11, Baltimore, Maryland

William D. Bowie - 62 - MD MD MD - clerk- trust co.

Mary B. - wife - 50 - WVA VA VA

3.James
Taylor4 Jackson (George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born
February1829 in McConnelsville, Ohio, and died Bet. 1901 - 1907 in possibly
Michigan.He married (1) Phoebe
Ann Wilson 1853, daughter of Col. J. D.
Wilson.She was born 13 January
1829 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia, and died 26 October 1882 in
Newark, Licking County, Ohio: married about 1888 (2) Henrietta born May 1829 in New York.

***

Obit:"Was a handsome man.Had store on west side of Weston's main street in 2 story house, later
location of the Willima L. Demington's, later Kaplan;s.Moved to Newark, Ohio. After Phoebe's
death James T. moved to Detroit, Michigan and married again." They were
living in Detroit in 1900, both age 71, married for 12 years.

***

Obit: Death of Mrs. Jackson

The
death of Mrs. Phebe A. Jackson, wife of James Jackson of the Lansing House,
occurred after a protracted illness, at their residence on Fourth Street, near
Church, in Newark, on Thursday morning of this week, Oct. 26th, 1882, at the
age of fifty three years.Mrs.
Jackson was a native of Clarksburg, West Virginia, born there in 1829.She was a grand daughter of the late
Col. Benjamin Wilson of Clarksburg, West Virginia, who was prominently
identified with the varied interests, the history, politics and statesmanship
of Western Virginia for a period of fifty years, and highly influential in
shaping the character and institutions of that section of the United
States.And the gentleman bearing
the same honored nameand who has
served a number of years as member of Congress from the Clarksburg district, is
a brother of Mrs.Jackson.Her father,(the late Col. J. D. Wilson)
was a brother of our esteemed fellow citizen, Daniel D. Wilson, who has resided
in Licking county many years.

Mr.
and Mrs. Jackson have had a married life of a little more than thirty years,
nearly half of it spent in Newark and in several other Ohio towns.The deceased was the mother of six
children, four sons and two daughters, who mourn the death of one of the
kindest and most affectionate of mothers.Mrs. Jackson was in communion with the Episcopal Church, and sustained
the reputation of an exemplary woman who was faithful in all the relations of
life.She was of cheerful
temperament, genial, always kind, pleasant, resigned, disposed to look on the
bright side of things, reconciled to the unavoidable ills of life.Many friends bear the deceased in
kindly remembrance.Funeral
service tomorrow, (Saturday) at three o’clock. pm. (Nov. 4, 1882 Weston
Democrat, from the --Newark Daily
Advocate.)

Children of James Jackson and Phoebe Wilson are:

+11i.Hetty Georgiana5
Jackson, born about February 1853 in
Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia; died Aft. 1920.

+12ii.Benjamin Wilson Jackson, born about 1855 in West Virginia.

+13iii.Mary Jackson, born about 1857 in Lewis County, West Virginia.

14iv.Josiah Davisson Jackson, born about 1859 in West Virginia.

15v.Thomas Stonewall Jackson, born about 1863 in West Virginia.

16vi.Despard Jackson, born September 1869 in Ohio.

4.Catherine4
Jackson (George Washington3,
George2, John1) was born about 1831 in McConnelsville,
Ohio, and died 25 June 1893 in San Diego, California.She married Gibson J. Butcher about 24 October 1848 (bond date) in Lewis County,
West Virginia.He was born 1823 in
Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, and died 29 August 1877 in Weston, Lewis
County, West Virginia. Burial: Aft. 29 August 1877, Arnold Hill, Weston, Lewis
County, West Virginia. He was a tanner, owned a tannery on Town Run.

History of
West Virginia and the People

Chapter XXXV

Members of the
Constitutional Convention 1872

The debates which occurred while the new constitution
was in process of formation were never printed. The president was Samuel Price,
of Greenbrier county; secretary, Gibson J. Butcher, of Lewis county; first
assistant secretary, Barney J. Galligan, of Ohio county; enrolling clerk, John
H. Woods, of Barbour county; sergeant-at-arms, Jacob B. Cunningham, of Hardy
county.

Children of Catherine Jackson and Gibson Butcher
are:

17i.Hugh5 Butcher, born about 1852 in Lewis County, West Virginia.

He went west and died single.

+18ii.Hetta Jackson Butcher, born 1853 in Lewis County, West Virginia; died
1905.

19iii.Margaret
"Maggie" Butcher, born about
1858 in Lewis County, West Virginia. She was a prominent school teacher in West
Virginia, attended the first institute held by John Strange Hall at
Jacksonville; taught WV, KS, Utah, NM; Principal of school in Raton, NM; died
single. Burial: Arnold Hill, Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia

+20iv.Belle T. Butcher, born December 1861 in Lewis County, West Virginia;
died Aft. 1924 in Probably Washington DC.

5.Eliza
J. "Lida"4 Jackson
(George Washington3, George2, John1) was born
about 1833 in McConnelsville, Ohio, and died 06 February 1874 in Brenham,
Texas.She married Corneleus
"Neil" Hurley 02 December
1850.He died about 15 May 1871 in
Brenham, Texas.

Confederate
Soldier: Lived at Weston several years; moved toTexas, was merchant in Brenham,
Texas. Committed suicide there on account of losses in cotton speculation
shortly before 15 May 1871. Obit: reprint: Weston Democrat 16 December 1987.

Children of Eliza Jackson and Corneleus Hurley
are:

21i.Daniel5 Hurley, born about 14 June 1854.

He died at age 4.

22ii.Katherine Hurley.She
married Mr. Bolling.

23iii.George Hurley, died in Died single.

+24iv.Margaret
"Maggie" Hurley.

+25v.Mary Hurley.

6.Alfred
Henry4 Jackson (George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born 01
January 1836 in McConnelsville, Ohio, and died 01 August 1863 in Civil War,
wounded Cedar Mountain. He is buried near Stonewall Jackson in Lexington. He
was a member of his staff but was fired because he wouldn't get up in the
morning. He married Mary Blair Paxton November 1858.She was
born 1841 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and died 07 July 1918 in Elkins,
Randolph County, West Virginia.

“Alfred
became the highest ranking officer in the confederate army. Co I 31 Virginia
Infantry; Enrolled 2 June 1861, age 25; Cpt. Appointed Adj. General on T. J.
Jackson's staff 12 November 1861; Battle of Greenbrier, McDowell; 9 august 1862
severely wounded at battle of Cedar Mountain. Shortly before his death he made
Brigadier General. “Roy Bird Cook Collection

Children of Alfred Jackson and Mary Paxton are:

+26i.Ella Bennett5
Jackson, born 23 September 1859; died 05
May 1904.

+27ii.May Paxton Jackson, born 1863 in Virginia.

Generation
No. 3

7.William
George5 Bennett (Margaret
Elizabeth4 Jackson, George Washington3, George2,
John1) was born 05 January 1847, and died 08 November 1916. Burial:
Aft. 08 November 1916, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia. He
married Alice Brannon 27 March
1872, daughter of John Brannon and Amanda Bland.She was born 03 May 1849, and died 27 August 1924. Burial:
Aft. 17 August 1924, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia

Children of William Bennett and Alice Brannon are:

+28i.Margaret "Madge"6
Bennett, born 08 October 1874; died 22
December 1940 in Hartford, Connecticut.

+29ii.John Brannon Bennett, born 13 April 1873 in Weston, Lewis County, West
Virginia; died 26 November 1933 in Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia.

+30iii.Hunter McCauley Bennett, born 30 November 1876; died 17 January 1962.

+31iv.Bertha Bennett, born 02 February 1879 in Weston, Lewis County,
West Virginia; died 23 November 1982 in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia.

32v.William GeorgeBennett Jr., born 05 April 1881; died 24 February 1882. He is buried beside his
Brannon grandparents.Burial: Aft.
24 February 1882, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia.

Letter from J. M. Bennett
to G.D. Camden: 3/9/1882. " My son George's youngest child died since you
left and Wirt Camper's daughter is scarcely expected to live.It seems to be a southern type of
scarlet fever brought by Mr. McDonough from Tennessee. "

33vi.William Bland Bennett, born 10 September 1883; died 02 December 1918.
Burial: Aft. 02 December 1918, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia

8.Gertrude
B.5 Bennett (Margaret Elizabeth4
Jackson, George Washington3, George2, John1)
was born 01 November 1851, and died 26 May 1926 in Buckhannon, Upshur County,
West Virginia.She married Dr.
Fleming Howell 30 September 1891.He was born 31 May 1849 in Monongalia
County, (West) Virginia, and died 1941.

In
1908 he was President of the West Virginia State Medical Association.

Child of Gertrude Bennett and Fleming Howell is:

+34i.Margaret6
Howell, born 17 September 1893 in
Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia; died 26 August 1979 in Lakewood,
Colorado.

9.Louis5
Bennett (Margaret Elizabeth4
Jackson, George Washington3, George2, John1)
was born 27 November 1849 in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, and died 02
August 1918 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Burial: Aft. 02 August 1918, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West
Virginia. He married Sallie Maxwell
16 January 1889, daughter of James Maxwell and Ruth Ray.She was born 02 June 1857 in Wheeling,
Ohio County, West Virginia, and died 19 May 1944 in New York City, New York.
Burial: Aft. 19 May 1944, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia.

***

Wheeling,
West Virginia

Weston
Democrat3 Apr. 1914

The
West Virginia Hillbilly - February 7, 1981

“Louis Bennett, one of the most distinguished
citizens of Weston, was born at Weston, West Virginia, November 27th 1849, and
passed to his heavenly reward August 2nd, 1918.He was the second son born of the marriage of Jonathan McCally
Bennett and Margaret Jackson whose ancestors came to Virginia from New
jersey.His father was Auditor of
Virginia from the out-break of the Civil War until its close.His mother was a daughter of Captain
George W. Jackson, who was appointed a Lieutenant in the war of 1812 by
President James Madison, and a granddaughter of George Jackson who was a member
of Congress from Virginia at the time of Burr and Jefferson contest for the
Presidency.

He
was educated in private schools in Weston and at Richmond and Fredericksburg,
in Virginia.In 1871 he graduated
in law from the University of Virginia.After serving as principal of the State Normal School at Glenville for
three years he engaged in the practice of the law at Weston and taught in the
public schools of that city.For
eight years he was prosecuting attorney of Lewis County.He was elected to the Legislature in
1890 and became Speaker of the House of Delegates in 1891.For years he was prominent in the
leadership of the Democratic party.In 1904 he was a Parker and Davis elector at large.In 1908 he was the Democratic nominee
for Governor of West Virginia.

In
1889 he married Sallie J. Maxwell, a daughter of the late James and Ruth
Maxwell of Wheeling.To this union
three children were born, James Maxwell Bennett, deceased, Agra Bennett, now
the wife of Johnson C. McKinley of Wheeling, and Louis Bennett Jr. who lost his
life in the world war in the aviation service.

He
was a very prominent member of the Masonic Fraternity.His Masonic record is of interest.He was initiated an Entered Apprentice
July 6th, 1874; passed to the degree of Fellow Craft, July 20th 1874; raised to
the Sublime Degree of Master Mason August 17th, 1874, in Weston Lodge No. 10
A.F. & A. M. at Weston, West Virginia.Exalted to the degree of Royal Arch Mason, September 27th
1883, in Bigelow Chapter No. R,R.
A. M.at Weston West Virginia.

***

Bennett -
Maxwell

Jan 19, 1889, Weston
Democrat

The
“Register” of the 17th inst., in speaking of the marriage of Mr. Louis Bennett
says:The elegant home of Mrs.
Ruth Maxwell, on South Market street, was the scene last night of a most happy
and interesting event.It was no
less than the marriage of Mrs. Maxwell’s daughter, Sallie, to Hon, Lewis
Bennett, of Weston.By half past
seven the relatives and a few friends of the two contracting parties had
assembled in the south parlor of the spacious mansion, where Mrs. Maxwell and
her daughter, Miss Mim., assisted by Judge and Mrs. Bennett and the Misses
Bennett, of Weston, received the quests.

The
interior of the residence was made unusually charming by the floral decorations
so abundantly and tastefully distributed in every apartment.Potted azaleas, red and white
carnations, roses and hyacinths, and smilax met the guest at every turn.

At
half-past seven Mendelssohn’s wedding march resounded from the hall above,
where the orchestra was stationed, and presently the attendants, Messrs. J. R.
Davenport and James P. Adams, entered, followed by Rev. R. Rush Swope.D. D. Arrayed in surplice and
stole.Lastly came the bride and
groom.On reaching the positions
assigned them the beautiful marriage ritual of the Episcopal Church was begun
and in a few minutes the twain were made one.

The
bride’s toilet was a most exquisite one, composed of heavy white armure silk,
combined with silver brocade, made cn-Princess with train.It was cut V-shape at the throat and
filled in with point lace; slashed sleeves of the armure, filled in with
brocade and finished with point lace; point lace handkerchief and fan.Her veil was held in place with a
superb diamond star, the gift of the groom, and about her throat she wore a
beautiful diamond necklace, a present from her sister, Miss Mim Maxwell.

Hearty
congratulations followed, and when these were over refreshments were served in
the dining room, and while being discussed pleasant strains of music kept the
guests company.AT 9:40 o’clock
Mr. And Mrs. Bennett took the Panhandle train for the East to be absent for an
indefinite period.On their departure
Mr. W. L. Hearne, with an ample supply of rice, was chosen to speed the parting
couple.

The
high contracting parties are well known to Wheeling society.Mrs. Bennett was a great favorite in
her set.Having a gentle
disposition, vivacious temperament, and highly cultivated mind, she made a most
delightful friend and companion.Mr. Bennett is one of the most popular lawyers in the county of
Lewis.He has been Prosecuting
Attorney several terms, and could have had the office again, but declined to be
a candidate.

The
groom and attendants wore full evening dress, and some of the toilettes of the
ladies present were very elegant.

Floral
decoration by Laupp, the Island florist; music by Dramer and refreshments by
Ziegenfelder.

***

Louis
Bennett Sr. was the first President of Glenville (then) Normal School.Bennett Hall there is named in his
honor.Thus., two of William
Bennetts descendants have halls at Glenville College names for them.The other is Clark Hall named in honor
of Humbolt (H.Y.) Clark, who taught there for many years.(Glenville is in Gilmer Co., WV)

Louis
Bennett Public Library in Weston, WV was given by Sallie Maxwell Bennett in
memory of her husband and her son. (This was their home).She also donated a room in a NY Museum
but not as a memorial.

She
had great difficulty in gaining permission to donate a window in Westminster
Abbey in memory of her son and his comrades who gave their lives in WWIShe was an American and not a native of
England but she finally told them that since her son had given his life
fighting for England it was the least they could do to permit his mother to
give the window in his and his comrades name. p. 156 Holt (Bennett Family
History)

***

Obits: p. 6, Bennett, Hon. Louisdied in Atlantic City.Body arrived Monday and funeral will be
held this evening at 6 o’clock.Deceased is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Johnson Camden
McKinley of Wheeling and a son Louis Bennett Jr. in the British Aviation service
(Weston Independent, Tues. 6 Aug. 1918.)

***

MRS. LOUIS
BENNETT, SR.

WESTON, May 22 - Mrs. Sallie Maxwell Bennett, 87,
whose husband was a nominee for governor in 1908 and who bestowed many
philanthropies upon the cities of Wheeling and Weston, died yesterday in a New
York city hospital.

She
was the widow of Louis Bennett, former Lewis county prosecutor and one-time
head of the old Glenville Normal school who made an unsuccessful race as the
Democratic gubernatorial nominee thirty-six years ago.

Mrs.
Bennett was a native of Wheeling where she and her only surviving sister, Mrs.
Emily Maxwell, of Washington, donated the Maxwell property as the site for the
present city library and museum.

To
Weston Mrs. Bennett donated the Bennett mansion to be used as a library and war
memorial to her son, Louis Bennett, Jr., a lieutenant in the Canadian air force
who was killed in action in World War 1.

Mrs. Bennett leaves a daughter, Mrs. Douglas Williams
of Wheeling.

***

MRS. LOUIS
BENNETT OFFERS FINE COURT AVENUE HOME TO THE CITY

"Weston
Democrat" December 30, 1921

REQUESTS THAT A
SUFFICIENT SUM BE RAISED AS AN ENDOWMENT.ASKS THAT

PROPERTY BE
FITTED FOR WELFARE CENTER

PROBABLY THE
MOST GENEROUS OFFER THAT HAS EVER BEEN MADE ONLY PROVISION IS THAT IT BE
NON-SECTARIAN.

The City of Weston has been offered the old Bennett
Homestead on Court Avenue as a memorial library and social center by Mrs. Louis
Bennett in commemoration of her husband, Hon. Louis Bennett, long one of
Weston's most prominent and beloved citizens.

The property in question is probably the most
desirable piece of residence property in the city of Weston.It has a frontage of 225 feet on Court
Avenue, and extends clear thru to High street, where it also has a 225 foot
frontage.The property is improved
by a 17-room house of the most sturdy construction and handsome appearance, and
the entire ground area about the house has been improved by beautiful lawns,
trees, arbors and shrubbery.The
present valuation of the property has been placed conservatively at $50,000.

TO BE
NON-SECTARIAN

Mrs. Bennett's offer is made without any provisions
other than that the memorial library and social center shall be purely
non-sectarian, and that a sufficient sum shall be raised as an endowment to
properly care for the upkeep and maintenance the establishment.The gift would be known as the
"Louis Bennett Public Library and Welfare Center."

It is Mrs. Bennett's wish, if the gift is accepted,
that all community activities shall center in the building.A library would be built up--the
Bennett library is offered as a nucleus--there would be a reading room, a room
for the children, a room for social purposes, and various meeting rooms where
societies, clubs and church organizations could hold meetings.The yard would be used for playground,
rest and recreation purposes.

MRS. BENNETT'S
LETTER

Paris, December 9, 1921

To the Mayor and City Council of Weston, West
Virginia.

Gentlemen:

After traveling more than 40,000 miles by sea and
land since I left home I have arrived safely in Paris and send you Christmas
Greetings.

In
Australia, South Africa and New Zealand -- all of which are new countries
resembling our West -- I found almost everywhere, in towns smaller than Weston,
a public library and reading room, often a Museum of the country.

As
you know, we have no "race suicide"; our streets are full of young
people and children who, after school is out, have nowhere to go excepting the
“movies" where there is nothing to improve their minds and much beside the
close atmosphere to ruin their health.

When
a Y.M.C.A. is spoken of it is objected to on account of being sectarian.Clarksburg has a Y.M.C.A., a library
and a Country Club - have we not enough public spirited citizens to support a
public Library and welfare center in Weston?

Both Hon. Louis Bennett and his son, Lieutenant Louis
Bennett, Jr., were born in Weston and the latter always said he intended to
live there.We expected him to
carry on his father's affairs.Now
they are both gone, but I do not want you to forget them.The Homestead was not left to me, and
if I take it from the estate I must count it in my share, and I would not be
able to endow it.Mr. Carnegie, as
you know, always demanded that each town to which he gave a library should
raise a sum sufficient to support it. Now this is the proposal I make to the
city of Weston as a Christmas greeting:

I
will give the Homestead on Court Avenue to be held in perpetuity as "The
Louis Bennett Public Library and Welfare Center" on condition that from
$50,000 to $100, 000 be raised and placed on interest, such interest to be an
annual income for salaries, books and papers and upkeep.Any income not needed to be added to
the principal or put on interest as a nest egg for future growth.

The
house is well fitted for such a purpose as the rooms are large, the parlor and
billiard room connect and could be used for social purposes, a meeting place
for the various Women's Clubs and activities and if we make it truly a
"welfare or hospitality center" each church could contribute a
certain sum and use the rooms instead of a parish house, thus eliminating their
several expenses and making it really "a City of Brotherly Love." A
room could be set aside for reading room and library, and another for a
children's room.My son Louis has
boxes of books suitable for juveniles, and our own library I would give as a
nucleus, the books not to be taken away.You would raise a lending library.

Most
of the young married people were children with my children and played on the
lawn.I would like to feel that
their children and grandchildren would continue the custom.If I give you the vacant lots also it
would be for park and playground.In summer the mothers could bring their small children to play
safely.We could have music once a
week in the evening.In the garage
we could have a training school for trades the boys could be busy instead of on
the street comers.You remember
how busy Louis always was with his automobile and how the other boys enjoyed
helping him.Remember the boys and
girls of today are our future citizens.

How
much did your High School cost?How much would a library building cost? Think of that and then subscribe
that amount to endow this project which otherwise is a free gift to you and
your children.Kindly put this
matter before your people.

I understand you have a Chamber of Commerce as well
as the Rotary Club and that institution has shown you what social co-operation
will do.This is to be for the
Catholics and Protestants.Something that will grow with the growth of Weston, something to open the
vistas of books, pictures, lectures, travels.The beautiful world we live in has more to offer than
"three meals a day and household cares".

I should like to hear from you definitely early in
the new year so that I can make my plans accordingly.

(signed) MRS.LOUIS BENNETT

Care American Express Co.

I I Rue Scribe, Paris, France.

Note: The Louis Bennett Public Library has been
placed on West Virginia’sNational
Register of Historic Places.

Children of Louis Bennett and Sallie Maxwell are:

35i.James
Maxwell6 Bennett, born 27
October 1891; died 10 July 1892 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.
Burial: Aft. 10 July 1892, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.

The Baptismal Font at St. Paul's Church in Weston,
Lewis County, was given in his memory. (William George Bennett diary)

P. 7 1846 Obits:James Maxwell Bennett, s/o Hon. Louis Bennett died of chorea
infantum, Sunday July 10 and was interred in the Greenhill Cemetery on Tues. by
the side of his mother’s family. (Weston Republican 16 Jul. 1892)

+36ii.Agra Bennett, born 09 April 1893 in Denver, Colorado; died 13
January 1968 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.

37iii.Louis
Jr. Bennett, born 22 September 1894 in
Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia; died 24 August 1918 in France. He was
first buried on 25 August 1918 in Wavrin, France, Lot 82, body later returned
to Weston for final interment. Burial: Aft. 24 June 1918, Machpelah Cemetery,
Lewis County, West Virginia.

Tombstone:RAF
Lt. Bennett 40th Squadron Royal Air Force was shot down in flames over the
lines on Aug. 24, 1918 after he had destroyed two German observation
balloons.His record Aug. 15-24
being 3 enemy planes, 9 balloons destroyed 4 in one day for which he was
recommended for the Distinguished Flying Cross.The Germans buried him with military honors at Wavrin near
Lille France where a memorial church in his honor was dedicated on Aug. 24,
1919.

“Louis Bennett who lost his life in the air service
in France was brought back for burial in Machpelah Cemetery. Weston
Independent 13 April 1930)

11.Hetty
Georgiana5 Jackson (James
Taylor4, George Washington3, George2, John1)
was born about February 1853 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, (West) Virginia,
and died after 1920.She married Eli
Marsh Turner before June 1884, son of
Uriel Marsh and Mary Rebecca.He
was born December 1844 in West Virginia, and died 01 March 1908.

She possibly died in Morgantown, where
she was living with her daughter, Phoebe, in 1920, age 66 years, widow.

Eli was a representative from Harrison County to
theHouse of Delegates 1877-'79.

He was an insurance agent and president of West
Virginia University.

“In March, 1844, Mary Rebecca became the wife of
Uriel M. Turner, a lawyer, of Culpepper county, Virginia, who practiced his
profession at Clarksburg after their marriage; and the one child of this union
was the late Prof. Eli Marsh Turner, of the Morgantown University, who died on
March l, 1908, at the age of sixty-four years, leaving a wife, (nee Miss H.
Georgia Jackson, of Newark, Ohio) and four children; viz., Mary R., Phoebe,
James J., and Wirt M. Turner, all of Morgantown.”

Children of Hetty Jackson and Eli Turner are:

+38i.Mary Rebecca6
Turner, born 30 June 1884 in Morgantown,
West Virginia; died 18 January 1961 in Murfeesboro, Tennessee.

39ii.James J. Turner, born about March 1886 in West Virginia.

40iii.Mallory Wirt Turner, born about March 1886 in West Virginia.

+41iv.Phoebe Ann Turner, born about March 1886 in Morgantown, West
Virginia.

12.Benjamin
Wilson5 Jackson (James Taylor4,
George Washington3, George2, John1) was born
about 1855 in West Virginia.He
married Corrinne Reynolds.

Child of Benjamin Jackson and Corrinne Reynolds
is:

42i.George Reynolds6
Jackson, born 15 October 1890 in Harrison
County, West Virginia. George was at Chateau Thiery, St. Mihiel as Lt. U. S.
Marines; made Capt. was gassed; awarded Crois de Guerre; was lawyer in New
York; died single.

13.Mary5
Jackson (James Taylor4, George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born about
1857 in Lewis County, West Virginia.

Child of Mary Jackson is:

43i.Henry Turner6
Jackson.

18.Hetta
Jackson5 Butcher (Catherine4
Jackson, George Washington3, George2, John1)
was born 1853 in Lewis County, West Virginia, and died 1905. She married Hugh Bankhead.He
was born 1850. In 1880 she is living with her mother in Weston, WV, with the
boys..no husband listed, but she is listed as married.The boys ended up in Topeka, Kansas at
a later date.

Children of Hetta Butcher and Hugh Bankhead are:

44i.Russell6
Bankhead, born about 1877 in West
Virginia.

45ii.Cecil Bankhead, born about 1878 in West Virginia.

46iii.Marguerite
"Reta" Bankhead, born in
Augusta, Kansas.She married
Edward A. Vandeventer. He was a prominent newspaper man in Salt Lake City,
Utah.

20.Belle
T.5 Butcher (Catherine4
Jackson, George Washington3, George2, John1)
was born December 1861 in Lewis County, West Virginia, and died Aft. 1924 in
Probably Washington DC.She
married James E. Hurley about
1884.He was born June 1868 in
Iowa, and died 1921.

He
was general manager of Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe RR; lived Topeka, KS and also
lived in Utah.

3 December 1921 - estate of James E. Hurley,
permission to sell business.

Children of Belle Butcher and James Hurley are:

47i.Harlow6 Hurley, born 17 June 1889 in Kansas.

In 1910 he was a roomer in Topeka, Kansas

48ii.Hildegarde Hurley, born July 1893 in Iowa.

She was part of Society in Washington DC and is
mentioned in several newspaper articles attending affairs and bridge
parties.She was a member of the
Stonewall Jackson Chapter 20 United Daughters of the Confederacy and Capt.
Mollie Pitcher Chapter D. A. R.

26.Ella
Bennett5 Jackson (Alfred Henry4,
George Washington3, George2, John1) was born
23 September 1859, and died 05 May 1904. Burial: Aft. 05 May 1904, Machpelah
Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia

She
married Dr. Matthew Jr. Edmiston about
1892.He was born about 20
December 1856 in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, and died 26 April 1894 in
Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. Burial: Aft. 26 April 1894, Machpelah
Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia.

***

Obit:

April 28, 1894

Dr. Mat Edmiston Dead

One
of the saddest deaths that has occurred in our midst for a long time was that
of Dr. Matthew Edmiston on Thursday morning, at 8:40 o’clock, of heart failure
resulting from typhoid fever.

In
his untimely departure the end of his life came too soon.He had just entered upon a useful
career and in the midst of a promising future was cut down.For several years he has held the
position of assistant physician at the Hospital for the Insane, where he had so
endeared himself to the employees that his death there is mourned not only by
them, but by many inmates to whom he had administered so tenderly during his connection
with that institution.He was
peculiarly adapted to the sick room -- kind, gentle and sympathizing.It would be difficult to pay such
tribute to his memory as his professional life deserved.He was a physician by nature,
possessing in addition all of the qualifications that thorough educational
advantages could bestow.His life
work had just begun.

On
the 17th day of April 1890 he was united in marriage to Miss Ella Jackson, a
daughter of Mrs. Mary B. Jackson, who was so long a matron at the Hospital.By their marriage one child, a
beautiful bright boy, was born, who, together with its mother, survives him.

There
is none perhaps more painfully prostrated by the severe blow than the aged
mother of the deceased.To her and
to the heart broken young widow, brothers and sister, the expressions of our
people go out in sympathy.The
interment will most likely take place this (Friday) afternoon.

Child of Ella Jackson and Matthew Edmiston is:

+56i.Andrew 6
Edmiston, Jr. born 13 November 1892; died
28 August 1966 in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. The “Jr.” was given to
distinguish him from his uncle.

27.May
Paxton5 Jackson (Alfred Henry4,
George Washington3, George2, John1) was born
1863 in Virginia.She married Blain
Ward Taylor 13 February 1889 in Lexington,
Virginia.He was born 15 December
1859 in Elkins, Randolph County, West Virginia. In 1900 they were living with
his folks in Leadsville, Randolph County, WV.

***

Blain
W., son of Andrew and Louise Dyer (Ward) Taylor, was born December 15, 1859,
near Elkins, Virginia. He received his early education in the public and
private schools of his native county, and began teaching in the public schools
when only fourteen years of age. He graduated at the Fairmont State Normal
School, one of the leading educational institutions of West Virginia, and was
afterwards employed as a teacher in that school. He served during two sessions
as a committee clerk in the West Virginia legislature when the question of
education was under consideration, and was twice elected superintendent of the
schools of Randolph county. In the year 1882 he was appointed to re-value the
lands of Randolph, being assessor for the second assessment district, and
continuing in office for a year, and was made chief clerk of the state
department of West Virginia during Governor Fleming's administration. In 1885
he was appointed clerk in the railway mail service between Baltimore and
Grafton, West Virginia, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and remained here
during the years 1886 and 1888, being removed when Harrison became president of
the country. In January, 1894, he was appointed chief clerk of the dead letter
office at Washington, holding that position for nearly two years, and in
September, 1895, he was promoted to the position of superintendent of the
division of postoffice supplies. In January, 1897, he was promoted to the
office of chief clerk of the postoffice department, holding this position for
eight years, and resigning in order to enter the campaign in behalf of Henry
Gassaway Davis, in which he had charge of a part of the state of West
Virginia.

Mr. Taylor was secretary of the second district
congressional committee during the campaign of Colonel Thomas B. Davis, and
upon his election to congress accepted the offer of the position of private
secretary, thereafter taking up the active practice of law. He received his
degree of LL.B. and LL.M. at Columbian University, and during his senior year
at the university he was unanimously elected chairman of the executive committee
of his law class, one of the highest honors to be conferred. After having
passed the bar examination in the District of Columbia, he was admitted to
practice in all the courts of that jurisdiction, in the circuit court of
Randolph county, and in the supreme court of the state. Mr. Taylor has been
elected president of the Elkins board of education, which position he still
holds, and has advanced the Elkins schools to first place in the state. He was
appointed by Governor W. E. Glasscock, state delegate to the deep waterways
commission, and in this capacity attended the meetings at Providence, Rhode
Island, and Norfolk, Virginia. Since his graduation in 1907 with the degrees of
LL.B. and LL.M. at Columbian University, Washington, now the George Washington
University, he has been a member of the State and Randolph County. Bar
associations. He is president of the Highland Park Development Company, at
Elkins, and laid out the Taylor sub-division to the city of Elkins. He has had
extensive dealings in real estate, is secretary and treasurer of the Elkins
Manufacturing and Implement Company, and has other corporate business
interests. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has held
chairs through encampment.

On February 13, 1889, he was married at Lexington,
Virginia, to May Jackson, daughter of Colonel Alfred H. Jackson, of Weston,
West Virginia, who was a major on Stonewall Jackson's staff, a colonel of the
Thirty-first Virginia Regiment, and was killed during the civil war at the battle
of Slaughter Mountain; his wife, Mrs. Taylor's mother, was Mary Blair Paxton.
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor became the parents of the following children: 1. Mary
Louise, a graduate of the western high school, Washington, D. C., and the
Shepherd Normal College, at Shepherdstown, West Virginia; she is now a teacher
in the Elkins schools. 2. Elizabeth Jackson, a graduate of Elkins high school
and Shepherd College; also a teacher in the Elkins schools. 3. Beatrice
Washington, died May 25, 1911, at the age of sixteen years. 4. May Jackson, now
a student in the Elkins high school. 5. Jean Stuart, died at Mountain Lake
Park, Maryland, aged three years.

Mrs. Taylor is regent of the Randolph Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, at Elkins, having been one of its
organizers; she has also held the office of historian in the United Daughters
of the Confederacy. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor are members of the Presbyterian church,
in the affairs of which Mrs. Taylor and her daughters are very active.West Virginia History, Vol. 3.

Children of May Jackson and Blain Taylor are:

57i.Mary Louise6
Taylor, born 1892 in West Virginia.She married Roy Fenton. She was a grad of Western High School, Washington,
DC; Shepherd Normal College, Shepherdstown, WV; Teacher Elkins, WV schools.

58ii.Elizabeth Jackson Taylor, born 1894 in West Virginia. She was a grad of
Elkins High School, and Shephard College and a teacher in Elkin school.

59iii.Beatrice Washington
Taylor, born 1896 in Washington DC; died
29 May 1911.

60iv.May Jackson Taylor, born 1897 in Washington DC. She was single in 1920
living with her folks in Palm Beach, Florida.

61v.Jean Stuart Taylor, born 1899 in Washington DC; died about 1902 in
Mountain State Lake Park, Maryland.

Generation
No. 4

28.Margaret
"Madge"6 Bennett
(William George5, Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born 08
October 1874, and died 22 December 1940 in Hartford, Connecticut.Burial: Aft. 22 December 1940,
Manchester, Connecticut. She is buried with the Cheney family. She married (1) Robert Crain 20 April 1898 in Lewis County, West Virginia.He was born 12 November 1865, and died
26 August 1928. She married (2)
Lewis Richmond Cheney.

Children of Margaret Bennett and Robert Crain are:

62i.Robert7 Crain.He
married Maxine.

+63ii.William George Bennett7 Crain (Margaret "Madge"6 Bennett,
William George5, Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George Washington3, George2,
John1) was born 20 June 1905, and died 09 November 1978 in Mt. Victoria,
Maryland. He married (1) Hellen "Hetty" Young, daughter of Dr. Young.
Hettie's father is considered the "Father of
Urology" and was Diamond Jim Brady and Woodrow Wilson's doctor, started
Brady Urilogical Institute at the John Hopkins Hospital and discovered
mercurochrome (See
http://urology.jhu.edu/about/young.php). They were divorced and Hellen married #2 Tommy King.
Bennett and Heddy had a son Bennett Crain, Jr (b. 1 Oct 1930; d. 3 Sep
2006) and a daughter.
William married #2 Eloise Miller and had one daughter. [Submitted by
Elizabeth Crain, granddaughter of W. G. Bennett Crain.]

+64iii.Eleanor Morgan Crain, born July 1910.

65iv.Margaret Bennett Crain, born 20 August 1914.She married (1) Vernon Pitroff.She
married (2) Robert Downs.

She had two children: Peter and Amanda.

29.John
Brannon6 Bennett (William
George5, Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George Washington3,
George2, John1) was born 13 April 1873 in Weston, Lewis
County, West Virginia, and died 26 November 1933 in Buckhannon, Upshur County,
West Virginia. Burial: Aft. 23 November 1933, Masonic Cemetery, Weston, Lewis
County, West He married Ethel Hayhurst.She was born 1888 in
Braxton County, West Virginia, and died April 1931 in Walkersville, Lewis
County, West Virginia2. She died from injuries
received in an accidental shooting near home in Walkersville.

Children of John Bennett and Ethel Hayhurst are:

+66i.Jonathan McCauley7
Bennett, born 28 October 1910; died 24
November 1982 in Morgantown, West Virginia.

+67ii.Margaret Jackson Bennett, born 05 July 1918 in Lewis County, West Virginia;
died 1984.

+68iii.George Brannon Bennett, born May 1919 in Lewis County, West Virginia.

30.Hunter
McCauley6 Bennett (William
George5, Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George Washington3,
George2, John1) was born 30 November 1876, and died 17
January 1962.Burial: Aft. 17
January 1962, Masonic Cemetery, Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. He married
Madge Hinzman 11 April 1925 in
Lewis County, West Virginia, daughter of G. Hinzman and Avis Reger.She was born 04 April 1892 in Laura
Lick Run, Lewis County, West Virginia, and died 16 October 1974. Burial: Aft.
16 October 1974, Masonic Cemetery, Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia

Children of Hunter Bennett and Madge Hinzman are:

+69i.Living born 07 February 1926
in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia.

+70ii.Alice Lee Bennett, born 11 May 1927.

+71iii.Mary Bland Bennett.

31.Bertha6
Bennett (William George5,
Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George Washington3, George2,
John1) was born 02 February 1879 in Weston, Lewis County, West
Virginia, and died 23 November 1982 in Weston, Lewis County, West
Virginia.Burial: Aft. 23 November
1982, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia.

She married (1) T. T. Vandergrift.She married (2) George Ira Keener.

Child of Bertha Bennett and T. Vandergrift is:

+72i.Alice7
Vandergrift, born 03 December 1908; died
14 June 1979 in Jacksonville, Florida.

Child of Bertha Bennett and George Keener is:

73i.George I 7 Keener
Jr..

Confusion with this child:
he may be Joseph Keener who married Joan Trinkle and had a son Joseph. Lived
Arlington, Texas.

34.Margaret6
Howell (Gertrude B.5 Bennett,
Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George Washington3, George2,
John1) was born 17 September 1893 in Clarksburg, Harrison County,
West Virginia, and died 26 August 1979 in Lakewood, Colorado.She married Samuel Wilson
Caesar 30 April 1919.He was born about 1885 in Scotland.

He
was a banker.He immigrated from
Scotland, arriving at the port of Boston, on the ship Mumidian, from Glasgow,
Scotland on 10 Oct 1911. They lived in Essex, Maplewood County, New Jersey in
1930.

Children of Margaret Howell and Samuel Caesar are:

74i.Gertrude Bennett7
Caesar, born 17 November 1921 in New York
City, New York. She had diabetes from childhood.

+75ii.Winifred H. Caesar, born 14 August 1924 in New York City, New York.

36.Agra6
Bennett (Louis5, Margaret
Elizabeth4 Jackson, George Washington3, George2,
John1) was born 09 April 1893 in Denver, Colorado, and died 13
January 1968 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.She married Johnson Camden McKinley 14 April 1914 in Washington, DC, son of John
McKinley and Amanda Camden.He was
born 31 January 1877 in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia, and died 09
July 1927 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.

In
August 1993, the Johnson Camden McKinley home was placed on the National
Register of Historic Places. The 1914 mansion was built for coal owner and
operator, Johnson C. McKinley and is a fine example of early 20th century
baronial architecture.

Willow Glen is located at 147 Bethany Pike, Wheeling,
West Virginia.

A WEST VIRGINIA
MANSION - NOW A MUSEUM

Editor’s Note:The following story was taken from “West Virginia Hillbilly”, September
6, 1969, p. 13.Refer to “Jackson
Brigade”, Vol. 3 #4, August 1995 for more on Agra Bennett and Johnson
McKinley.This family is from the
George Jackson/Elizabeth Brake line.

A Job You Can
Help Do for West Virginia

Make THE WEST
VIRGINIA BOOK Possible

History Is
Story of Families

A Reader
Reports on the Weston Bennetts

Quite
naturally, the history of West Virginia is the story of families.It is equally natural that the proposed
encyclopedia will draw its material greatly from family history.One family which has intrigued the
encyclopedia makers down the years has been the Bennett clan of Weston.For this purpose we asked a grandson of
Agra Bennett to supply us with source material on this family.David B. McKinley of Willow Glen,
Wheeling has obligingly submitted the following:

My
biggest problem is where to begin.For this informal purpose I would like to start with my grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Camden McKinley of Wheeling.For his wife, the former Agra Bennett of Weston, he built
what could be the largest private home in West Virginia - 48 rooms on an estate
of nearly 100 acres.From there
and the now Wheeling Steel Building he managed 11 coal companies, a street car
terminal, and an ice plant before his sudden death in 1927.His wife, Agra (after the town of Agra,
India) continued living in the mansion up until the time of her death in
1968.Since then the home has
become a museum, but that story is to come late.

In
fact the town of McKinleyville near Wellsburg was named for my grandfather and
his local coal operations.

***

Agra
led an adventurous and carefree life.She became one of the leading hostesses of the Wheeling society -
introducing Fred Waring to the area many years ago.Some of the parties she and her husband had are still
remembered by visitors now of the museum.South America was as familiar to her as Elm Grove in keeping with the
“travel” blood of her mother and aunt, Sallie and Mary Maxwell of
Wheeling.During the depression
she ran a nursery in the attic of the mansion and wrote a column, “Reveries and
Romance,” for the Wheeling newspaper.

Years
ago, and now lost in time, she explained to me how Robert E. Lee and Jefferson
Davis both were on the family tree.

Johnson
C. McKinley’s grandfather, Captain John McKinley, was a Revolutionary soldier
from Virginia in the 1770’s.For
his efforts the Commonwealth of Virginia, after the war, granted the Captain
280 acres of land at the mouth of Wheeling Creek, or the site of the present
downtown Wheeling!His uncle was
Johnson Newlon Camden, whom you have mentioned in your newspapers.My grandmother once said that distantly
he was related to Dolly Madison and William McKinley.

Agra
McKinley came from a very interesting and philanthropic family in Weston.Her home there is now the library for
the surrounding area.

***

…. Some of Jackson’s and Bennett’s furniture have
been preserved and are on exhibit here.….To continue, hopefully, to whet your appetite for West Virginians who
did their share, I would like simply to mention some of the outstanding
furniture that is here in the museum to enjoy.In the major room by room tour a visitor will find the
following:

Lafayette
Room:Liberty rug 1918; Lafayette
collection - Charleston, South Carolina’s gift to the general on his visit to
America in 1826 (couch, bed, desk, tables).

Franklin
Room:Buelle furniture from
1600’s, a gift of the French government; to Ambassador Benjamin Franklin when
he was in Paris by appointment of George Washington.

As
I said earlier, this is just a sampling of the collection that the families
have added to the home over the years.Looking over the list of the furniture not included, I feel as though I
failed to introduce an old friend.The furniture, the home, the family would welcome you and all other West
Virginians as they have down through the years.

***

Johnson Camden
McKinley:

The initiative and constructive powers which ever
make for definite accomplishment and worthy success have been well exemplified
in the career of Mr. Johnson C. McKinley, who is numbered among the alert and
progressive young business men of Wheeling and who is a representative of one
of the old and honored families of this section of the state, as may well be
understood when it is stated that his great-grandfather, Captain John McKinley,
received from the historic old commonwealth of Virginia the original grant of
land on which is now situated the city of Wheeling, the patent to this property
having been given him in recognition of his service as a patriotic soldier of
the continental forces in the war of the revolution, in which he served as
lieutenant and captain.

The family lineage is traced back to the McKinley clan
of Scotland and the name became identified with the annals of American history
in the early colonial epoch, when representatives of the same founded a home in
the colony of Virginia.

Johnson Camden McKinley reverts with satisfaction to
the fact that he can claim West Virginia as the place of his nativity, though
at an early age his parents removed to Kansas, in which state he was reared
almost to maturity. Mr. McKinley was born at Parkersburg, Wood county, West
Virginia, and is a son of John S. and Amanda (Camden) McKinley, both of whom
were born and reared in that part of Virginia that is now the state of West
Virginia.

John
Stringer McKinley continued to be identified with business interests at
Parkersburg until he removed his family to Kansas--this change being made
principally for the sake of securing a change of climate, by reason of his
impaired health. In the Sunflower state he established his home at Wichita and
Gueda Springs, and he became one of the prominent business men and honored and
influential citizens of that section of the state, where he built up a large
and prosperous enterprise as a buyer and shipper of grain and where he was
called upon to serve in various offices of distinctive public trust. He
continued to maintain his home in Kansas until his death, which occurred in
1898. John S. and Amanda (Camden) McKinley became the parents of four children,
of whom Johnson C., of this review, and his sister Caroline reside in Wheeling,
another daughter, Virginia, being the wife of Daniel Belford, of Andover,
Kansas, and the other daughter died in Orlando, Florida, in 1904. The father
was unswerving in his allegiance to the Democratic party, and, reared in its
faith, the son likewise has accorded equally staunch support to the principles
and policies for which the sterling old party stands sponsor.

As
has already been noted, Johnson C. McKinley was a boy at the time of the
family's removal to Kansas, where he was reared almost to adult age and where
he was afforded excellent educational advantages. In 1893 he returned to West
Virginia and entered the employ of the Monongahela River Railroad & Coal
Company. He thus identified himself with a line of industry in which it has
been his to gain marked success and precedence in an individual way. He was
made general agent and paymaster of the company noted and continued in its
employ for a period of five years, at the expiration of which he severed his
connection therewith and initiated an independent business in Wheeling, West
Virginia, in 1898, by establishing an agency having sole control of the
handling of the output of the Monongah Coal Company in Wheeling and its
vicinity. In the summer of the same year Mr. McKinley became one of the
organizers of the Highland Coal & Coke Company, which built up a prosperous
business and which was finally absorbed by the Fairmont Coal Company. In 1899
he effected the organization of the Alexander Coal Company, and this
corporation likewise was merged with the Fairmont Coal Company, on the first
day of January, 1901. In October, 1900, Mr. McKinley organized the Wheeling
Steam Coal Company, operating on the Terminal Railroad of the Pennsylvania
lines in Ohio county, near the corporate limits of Wheeling.

The
following coal companies were later organized by Mr. McKinley, to which he was
elected president and general manager, and which offices are still held by him:
Mound Coal Company, organized in 1902; Richland Coal Company, organized in
1903; Raven Coal Company, organized in 1905; Highland Coal Company, organized
in 1906; and the Dorsey Coal Company, organized in 1908.

It
will thus be seen that Mr. McKinley is confining his attention entirely to the
coal business and has been very successful in his operations. He is held in
high esteem in business and social circles in his native state, is a bachelor
and resides in the city of Wheeling.West Virginia History, Vol. 3

***

Children of Agra Bennett and Johnson McKinley are:

76i.Agra7 McKinley,
born 1916 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West
Virginia.She married Edgar
Kirk Thompson.

+77ii.Johnson Bennett McKinley, born 21 September 1920 in Wheeling, Ohio County,
West Virginia; died 18 October 1996 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.

78iii.Louis Bennett McKinley, born 30 December 1923 in Wheeling, Ohio County,
West Virginia. He died 11 November 1998 Dallas, Texas.He married June G. 09 June 1949 in Charleston, Kanawha County, West
Virginia.Born 17 June 1924; died 31 October 2002 Florida.

38.Mary
Rebecca6 Turner (Hetty
Georgiana5 Jackson, James Taylor4, George Washington3,
George2, John1) was born 30 June 1884 in Morgantown, West
Virginia, and died 18 January 1961 in Murfeesboro, Tennessee.Burial: 19 January 1961, Evergreen
Cemetery, Murfeesboro, Tennessee. She married Gordon Handy McCoy about 1909.He was born 15 July 1882 in Baltimore, Maryland, and died 07 January
1947 in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. Burial: Aft. 07
January 1947, Bradenton, Florida.

Religion: Presbyterian. She was said to be a member
of the Society of the Daughters of American Revolution, and the United
Daughters of the Confederacy (by way of her grandfather) in 1947 after Gordon
Handy McCoy died. She was a 2nd Cousin twice removed of General
"Stonewall" Jackson.

Children of Mary Turner and Gordon McCoy are:

79i.Marsh Turner7
McCoy, born 28 August 1910 in Morgantown,
West Virginia; died 17 August 1986 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Burial: Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge on Chesapeake
Bay, Maryland, USA . He was married four times and has living children.

Note: Cremated. Ashes spread in beloved country area.

Occupation: Attorney ; Education: American University
- BA, Columbus Law School (now Catholic University of America Law School),
Washington D.C. - Bachelor of Law 1938. Worked at the Library of Congress for a
couple of years in the 1930's. 24 years of Federal employment including
Military and U.S. Civil Service.

Military Experience: WWII - Quartermaster Corp. Was
known in War Time France shortly after arriving in Normandy (1944) as
"Monsieur Cigar" (he smoked cigars at that time) for providing local
populations with necessities.

Judge Advocate Generals
Office: Prosecuter of War Crimes - of German Officers in Salsburg, Austria.
Didn't like the job.

After that assignment, he was assigned to aide the
German Import/Export Office to get Germany back on it's economic feet.

Later, as Judge Advocate U.S. Civil Service, he
advised U.S. Generals on French Law.

Retired in 1964 and returned to USA with family.

In retirement, he worked as private/public/corporate
attorney, substitute judge, accountant.

Education: Gulf Coast Military Academy - Miss St. or
LA State Univ. married Blanche b. 1920. Has living child.

41.Phoebe
Ann6 Turner (Hetty Georgiana5
Jackson, James Taylor4, George Washington3, George2,
John1) was born about March 1886 in Morgantown, West Virginia.She married Michael J.
Malamphy.He was born 16 November 1883 in Maryland.

Member of the National Society of the Daughters of
the American Revolution Volume 72

page 239. Lived in Washington D. C.

Children of Phoebe Turner and Michael Malamphy
are:

82i.Richard N.7
Malamphy, born 1911 in West Virginia.

83ii.Elizabeth C. Malamphy, born about 1915 in West Virginia.

84iii.Stanton or Thomas Jackson
Malamphy, born about 1919 in West
Virginia.

56.Andrew
6 EdmistonJr.(Ella Bennett5 Jackson, Alfred Henry4,
George Washington3, George2, John1) was born
13 November 1892, and died 28 August 1966 in Weston, Lewis County, West
Virginia. (The "Jr." was placed on his name to distinguish him from
his uncle. Burial: Aft. 28 August 1966, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West
Virginia. He married (1) Elizabeth "Beth" Gage, daughter of Wesley Gage and Mary Evans.She was born 09 June 1914 in Oklahoma,
and died 04 March 1991. She was from Sapulpa, Oklahoma, met Andrew in
Washington, DC when she was working for Sen. Thomas of Oklahoma.Burial: Aft. 04 May 1991, Machpelah
Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia. He married (2) Merle W.
Williams3 21
April 1920 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, West Virginia4, daughter of Thompson Williams and Olive
Conway.She was born 27 January
1897 in Bristol, Harrison County, West Virginia, and died 21 December 1951.
Burial: Aft. 21 December 1951, Machpelah Cemetery, Lewis County, West Virginia.
They have a child and grandchildren.

Andrew
had 6 terms in Congress.Officer
WWI cited for "extraordinary heroism on the night of August 1 and 2 as a
result of which he was awarded the distinguished Service Cross in 1923.Was 1st Commander of Weston Post #4,
American Legion.

***

EDMISTON, Andrew, a Representative from West
Virginia; born in Weston, Lewis County, W.Va., November 13, 1892; attended the
Friends’ Select School, Washington, D.C., Kentucky Military Institute at
Lyndon, and the University of West Virginia at Morgantown; engaged in
agricultural pursuits 1915-1917 and in the manufacture of glass at Weston,
W.Va., since 1925; served overseas as a second lieutenant with the Thirty-ninth
Infantry, Fourth Division, 1917-1919; awarded the Distinguished Service Cross,
the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Distinguished Service Medal of
West Virginia; editor of the Weston (W.Va.) Democrat 1920-1935; mayor of
Weston, W.Va., 1924-1926; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in
1928 and 1952; State chairman of the Democratic executive committee 1928-1932;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Lynn S. Horner; reelected to the Seventy-fourth and to the
three succeeding Congresses and served from November 28, 1933, to January 3,
1943; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth
Congress; resumed his former business pursuits; appointed State director of War
Manpower for West Virginia on June 28, 1943, and served until his resignation
on June 30, 1945, to return to private business; died in Weston, W.Va., August
28, 1966; interment in Machpelah Cemetery. Source: Biographical Directory of
the United States Congress, 1771-Present

Generation
No. 5

63.William
George Bennett7 Crain (Margaret
"Madge"6 Bennett, William George5, Margaret
Elizabeth4 Jackson, George Washington3, George2,
John1) was born 20 June 1905, and died 09 November 1978 in Mt.
Victoria, Maryland.He married (1)
Hellen “Hetty” Young, daughter of Dr. Young.Hettie's father worked at John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore
and discovered mercurochrome. They were divorced and Hellen married #2 Tommy
King. Two Crain children. William married #2 Eloise Miller and had one daughter.

66.Jonathan
McCauley7 Bennett (John Brannon6,
William George5, Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born 28
October 1910, and died 24 November 1982 in Morgantown, West Virginia. Burial:
Aft. 24 November 1982, Masonic Cemetery, Weston, Lewis County, West
Virginia.He married Gladys
Methany.She was born 1919. Burial: Masonic Cemetery, Weston, Lewis
County, West Virginia

He
died at his home "Imperial Woods".Grad of the love Field Flight School, Dallas Texas, employed
30 years by WVU as flight instructor and then as manager of the aviation
department. Two children and grandchildren.

67.Margaret
Jackson7 Bennett (John Brannon6,
William George5, Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born 05 July
1918 in Lewis County, West Virginia, and died 1984. Burial: 1984, Masonic
Cemetery, Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. She married Herman
Lynn Warner.He was born 1919, and died 1974. Burial: 1974, Masonic
Cemetery, Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia.

One child.

68.George
Brannon7 Bennett (John Brannon6,
William George5, Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born May 1919
in Lewis County, West Virginia.He
married Mary Elizabeth Swecker.Six children.

72.Alice7
Vandergrift (Bertha6 Bennett,
William George5, Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born 03
December 1908, and died 14 June 1979 in Jacksonville, Florida.She married Alton Augustus
Register.She was married several times and has children.

77.Johnson
Bennett7 McKinley (Agra6
Bennett, Louis5, Margaret Elizabeth4 Jackson, George
Washington3, George2, John1) was born 21
September 1920 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, and died 18 October
1996 in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.He married Millie Hamilton.Two
children.

Endnotes

1.Lewis County Marriage Records, Bk2:116.

2.Weston Democrat, 24 April 1931.

3.Joan Williams of Colorado.

4.West Virginia Blue Book, p. 253, give
marriage date to Merle.

Compiled and submitted
by Linda B. Meyers, January 2007

Many thanks to Hunter
M. Bennett for sharing his research on this family.

Submitted by Linda Meyers, January, 2007.

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